Yesterday the High Court ruled that infamous torrent site The Pirate Bay must be blocked from access by all UK internet providers due to copyright infringement issues. "The galaxy's most resilient BitTorrent site" responded with a call to arms and a way around the oncoming ban.

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With torrent and file sharing sites under heavy fire around the world, The Pirate Bay (once ORG, now SE) remains the world's largest torrent magnet file resource, providing easy access to television shows, movies, music, books and, for registered users, pornography. This tends to make the people involved with the creation and distribution of such products incredibly angry.

The Pirate Bay doesn't host any copyright infringing materials. Indeed, in response to the February High Court ruling that threatened to bring about this very ban, the site switched to hosting magnet files, essentially links to torrent files hosted elsewhere.

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Lawmakers and entertainment executives can't fight elsewhere, however, and so users' portal to elsewhere is the target.

So UK internet service providers will have to block access to website, but as with many things on the internet, there are ways around the problem. Ways detailed in a post on The Pirate Bay's website in response to yesterday's ruling.

As usual there are easy ways to circumvent the block. Use a VPN service to be anonymous and get an uncensored internet access, you should do this anyhow. Or use TOR, I2P or some other darknet with access to the internets. Change your DNS settings with OpenDNS. Or use googles DNS servers... we could go on...

But they don't. Instead they leave users with a warning and a call to arms.

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But don't forget that we can't allow this shit to happen. Next time they're coming for something else. And yes, there will be a next time if we don't stop them. Write to your ISP and tell them to appeal the case. Write to your local MPs and tell them that this is not allowed. Make sure your voice is heard. Remember, we're all the pirate bay, and we must stand united against the censorship from our opponents!

There has to be a way to regulate the internet without destroying it. Current world authorities don't understand the issues well enough to act; old methods don't apply. Perhaps the next generation will be a little more savvy, if we make it that far.